• DocumentCode
    1431237
  • Title

    Noise Properties of Degenerate Dual Pump Phase Sensitive Amplifiers

  • Author

    Bogris, Adonis ; Syvridis, Dimitris ; Efstathiou, Costas

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    4/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1209
  • Lastpage
    1217
  • Abstract
    The noise properties of phase sensitive amplifiers based on degenerate four-wave mixing in optical fibers are studied taking into account the quantum noise amplification, the amplitude and phase noise properties of the pump sources. An analytical tool is presented for the direct calculation of the amplifier noise figure also verified by extensive numerical simulations. The signal power dependence of noise figure is both analytically and numerically accented. The need for high speed and precise phase locking is also revealed in order to diminish the effect of phase noise on the noise properties of the amplifier.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical noise; optical pumping; phase noise; quantum noise; amplifier noise figure; degenerate dual pump phase sensitive amplifiers; four-wave mixing; optical fibers; phase locking; phase noise; quantum noise amplification; signal power dependence; Parametric amplifiers; phase locked loops; phase matching; phase noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Lightwave Technology, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JLT.2010.2044016
  • Filename
    5423993